RCW 18.96.070
Qualifications of applicants. (Effective
until July 1, 2010.)
The following will be considered as minimum
evidence satisfactory to the board that the applicant is
qualified for registration as a professional landscape architect.
The applicant must have completed a course of study in
landscape architecture and have been graduated from a college or
school approved by the board as offering a curriculum in
landscape architecture, or the equivalent thereof, in any form of
training, as determined by the board. Each complete year of
study in any registered college or school of landscape
architecture may be accepted in lieu of one year of equivalent
training.
He must have a minimum of seven years in any combination of
training and experience, and shall present proof to the director
of passing such written examinations as may be prescribed by the
board.
Registration under this chapter shall be on an individual,
personal basis, and the director shall not register any firm,
company, partnership, corporation, nor any public agency. Corporate practice is not permitted under the provisions of this
chapter.
[1969 ex.s. c 158 § 7.]
RCW 18.96.070
Qualifications of applicants. (Effective
July 1, 2010.)
This section establishes the minimum evidence
satisfactory to the board that the applicant is qualified for
licensure as a professional landscape architect.
(1) A certificate of licensure shall be granted by the
director to all qualified applicants who are certified by the
board as having passed the required examination and as having
given satisfactory proof of completion of the required education
and work experience.
(2) An applicant for licensure as a landscape architect
shall be of a good moral character, at least eighteen years of
age, and shall possess one of the following qualifications:
(a) Have a professional landscape architectural degree from
an institution of higher education accredited by the national
landscape architecture accreditation board, or an equivalent
degree in landscape architecture as determined by the board, and
three years of practical landscape architectural work experience
under the supervision of a registered or licensed landscape
architect; or
(b) Have a high school diploma or equivalent and eight
years' practical landscape architectural work experience, which
may include landscape design as a principal activity and
postsecondary education approved by the board. At least six
years of work experience must be under the direct supervision of
a registered or licensed landscape architect. An applicant may
receive up to two years of practical landscape architectural work
experience for postsecondary education courses in landscape
architecture, landscape architectural technology, or a related
field, including courses in a community or technical college, if
the courses are equivalent to education courses in an accredited
landscape architectural degree program.
[2009 c 370 § 7; 1969 ex.s. c 158 § 7.]
NOTES:
Effective date -- 2009 c 370 §§ 1-16, 18, 20, and 21: See note following RCW 18.96.010.
Finding -- 2009 c 370: See note following RCW 18.96.010.